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This is a list of Canadian suffragists and suffragettes who were born in Canada or whose lives and works are closely associated with that country. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
At the time, the primarily Anglo-Canadian suffrage activists had not engaged the city's large immigrant population. [2] She married Sigfus Benedictsson and the couple co-founded Freyja, an Icelandic journal focused on the women's rights movement. Freyja eventually became the most important women's suffrage newspaper in Canada. It was published ...
Dublin Women's Suffrage Association – major Irish organization. [11]Irish Women's Franchise League – founded in 1908, more radical than the Dublin Association. [12]Irish Women's Suffrage Society – founded by Isabella Tod as the North of Ireland Women's Suffrage Society in 1872, it was based in Belfast but had branches in other parts of the north.
Mary Raleigh Richardson (1882/3 – 7 November 1961) was a Canadian suffragette active in the women's suffrage movement in the United Kingdom, an arsonist, a socialist parliamentary candidate and later head of the women's section of the British Union of Fascists (BUF) led by Sir Oswald Mosley.
This list of suffragists and suffragettes includes noted individuals active in the worldwide women's suffrage movement who have campaigned or strongly advocated for women's suffrage, the organisations which they formed or joined, and the publications which publicized – and, in some nations, continue to publicize– their goals.
The Canadian Women's Suffrage Association, originally called the Toronto Women's Literary Guild, was an organization based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, that fought for women's rights. After the association had been inactive for a while, the leaders founded the Dominion Women's Enfranchisement Association in 1889.
The Woman Suffrage Movement in Canada (2nd ed. U of Toronto Press, 1974) full text online; Domareki, Sarah. "Canadian Identity, Women's Suffrage, and the Rights of Women: A Comparative Analysis of the Stories and Activism of Nellie McClung and Thérèse Casgrain." American Review of Canadian Studies 48.2 (2018): 221-243.